Dependency Updater

by softaworks

Dependency Updater is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by softaworks in agent-toolkit.

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Install Dependency Updater

Copy Dependency Updater into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit/tree/main/skills/dependency-updater ~/.claude/skills/dependency-updater

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/dependency-updater/SKILL.md in softaworks/agent-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/dependency-updater
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Dependency Updater does

Dependency Updater manages dependencies for any language by auto-detecting the project type, applying safe minor and patch updates automatically, prompting for major versions, and diagnosing or fixing dependency issues. It supports Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java, and .NET.

Dependency Updater is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Dependency Updater comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Dependency Updater

Smart dependency management for any language with automatic detection and safe updates.

Quick Start

update my dependencies

The skill auto-detects your project type and handles the rest.

Triggers

Trigger	Example
Update dependencies	"update dependencies", "update deps"
Check outdated	"check for outdated packages"
Fix dependency issues	"fix my dependency problems"
Security audit	"audit dependencies for vulnerabilities"
Diagnose deps	"diagnose dependency issues"

Supported Languages

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Dependency Updater

What else does softaworks publish alongside Dependency Updater?
Dependency Updater is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from softaworks/agent-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 10x Mode, Add Skill and Agent MD Refactor. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dependency Updater does, and is maintained by softaworks in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the softaworks/agent-toolkit page.
How does Dependency Updater compare to other Automation skills?
Dependency Updater ranks #466 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Dependency Updater against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.